Social media can be a great way to share your life and interests with the world, but it also forces us into a competition over who has the best-looking, curated life. Even celebrities who are professionals at being looked at can fall prey to that feeling. In an interview on Dax Shepard’s podcast, Armchair Expert, Anna Faris reveals that she had mixed feelings about people referring to her relationship with Pratt as #goals:
“Chris and I did talk about…we got, like on the Twitter feed, ‘Love is dead’ and ‘Relationship goal.’ We obviously cultivated something and it was rewarding for a while. It was like ‘People seem to think we got all this shit all right.’ I had a little bit of a childish feeling of ‘Oh come on, fucking grow up’ — a little anger.”
However, she takes responsibility, saying that she definitely cultivated that image, but that ultimately social media is “a very hard forum to be genuine, and I think it does a disservice to people to not be.” (via Hello Giggles)
- Here’s a great essay from an Asian writer and Wes Anderson fan on some complicated feelings surrounding the portrayal of Japanese culture in Isle of Dogs. (via /Film)
- Linda Brown, who was the little girl at the center of the historic Brown vs. Board of Education case, which desegregated schools, passed away at the age of 76. (via Huffington Post)
- Amber Ruffin, who should really be hosting everything ever, will be hosting the Webby Awards on May 14th. (via Deadline Hollywood)
- Here is an example of why the UK’s The Sun is complete and total transphobic garbage. (via Twitter)
- Meet Calleigh Little, the trans woman who last year became the first woman to skateboard across the entire continental United States. (via Buzzfeed)
- An awesome piece making the case that Women’s History Month really needs to center black women, for once. (via Teen Vogue)
What have you seen today?
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